Everybody is aware of how important and expensive energy is in the modern world, Oil prices have skyrocketed in the last five years, Utility bills have increased astronomically (the Irish Gas Board recently lowered its enormous 34% increase to a still astounding 25%), and according to Steve Jobs, Google and Bill Gates are building their ownership of Power Systems (including Wind Farms, Electricity factories) worldwide.
So in these days of power use awareness, its a great relief to discover that when considering if I should dispose of my remaining desktop PC towers, I learned that the Mac Mini
Even better, according to this article iMac keeps its power promise, PC challenge issued” by Tom Yager, the 20 inch Dual core iMac uses an astounding average of 80-85 watts with six applications open, and at full throttle (each processor running at 100%, as would occur during video encoding or rendering) the iMac still consumes only 95 watts of power. Tom notes that his wifes 19inch lcd for her PC uses 32 watts of power and challenges anyone to find a PC that operates at 63 watts (as the iMac Core Duo 20inch does), Tom posted this article in February of 2006 and has had no challengers so far, giving the iMac the most power efficient computer of the year title!
The best part of this news about the Apple’s power efficiency are highlighted by this comment from Bernhard Michaelis who says:
Great - exactly what I was loooking for. I run my house completely on solar, and remember looking for the watts usage at the apple site. couldn’t find it - so this is a great help, and take this advice from a very power consumption aware person: these specs are amazing! A coffe machine uses at least 1200 watts, a hair dryer uses 1300 watts, so 95 watts is not even two light bulbs (each 60 watts, average user consumption). I tested the power book today (older one) when loading the battery and turned on, up to 50 watts. so there’s not too much difference..
Bernhard
These results and numbers mean that its not only better for your lifestyle to switch off that noisy tower pc that takes up 2 square feet of your living space and replace it with a Apple Mac mini or iMac, but its much better for the e=nvironment and for your wallet!
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